Title of Unit: Native Americans Title of Lesson: Native Americans of desert Submitted By: Meghan McQuain

Summary of the Lesson Plan: A. This lesson is intended to help students take a look at the Native Americans who lived in the desert regions. They lived their life differently from the Native Americans of the plains, the Natives Americans of the Northwest, and the Native Americans of the forest regions (Woodland). B. Target Population: Grade Level: 1st Skill Level: All learners Grouping: Whole class for power point discussion. Paired groups for activity.

C. Materials: Large KWL chart from Day 1 Power Point Teachers Come with me Science guide/script by Joyce Hobbs Crayons Students picture dictionaries The Navajos (Native American Histories) by Liz Sonneborn D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o H1.1.4 Listen to stories that reflect the beliefs, customs, ceremonies, traditions, and social practices of cultures around the world.

Student-Friendly Standards I will learn about the Desert Native Americans and how they lived their life in the desert.

E. Procedure: 1. Read the teacher script (up to Day 2) for the Desert Native Americans, while showing the power point (up to Day 2). 2. Have students partner share what else they learned from the power point and randomly select 5 students to share. 3. Update the KWL chart from the first day. 4. Tell students its time to update their picture dictionaries that they started for the Northwest Native Americans. Students will then draw a picture to go with these words: Desert & Pottery Allow students some time to draw a picture to match these words.

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EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: Native Americans Title of Lesson: Native Americans of desert Submitted By: Meghan McQuain

5. Next, have all the students meet you at the rug to learn about a specific tribe found in the south, the Navajos. Read The Navajos (Native American Histories) Asking questions about the text. 6. CLOSURE: Allow students to discuss with a partner two things they would like best if they lived as a Desert Native American boy/girl back in the old days, and two things that they would not like about living as a Desert Native American boy/girl in the old days. Examples If I was a desert Native American living in the old days I would like to garden (good). If I was desert Native American living in the old days I would not like the snakes! Yuck! (Bad). 7. Have each partner share one good and bad thing that their partner thought of. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Question and answer during read aloud, and partner sharing at the end of the lesson will tell me if theyre on the right track or not. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. Student answers to the questioning and partner sharing will show me understanding or not. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? The power point and teacher script will be the easiest to teach. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? The most challenging part will be conveying how desert life was. Some students may find it hard understand how the world was totally different from what it is today. The children today have T.V., bikes, video games, and so much more available to them. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? This lesson can be extended by comparing and contrasting the Desert Native Americans to the Plains Native Americans. They share some similarities and differences. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? Work one on one with the students discussing the topic of confusion. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I think this lesson will be fine as is.
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Title of Unit: Native Americans Title of Lesson: Native Americans of desert Submitted By: Meghan McQuain

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Its difficult finding activities for the younger ages like this, because theyre at the age where they learn from listening, pictures, stories and they cant really do research yet. Materials:

Nevada State College

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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